Tag Archives: druids

Autumn Stonehenge

September 21, 2023 – 4:25 am

Written 2010 The ancient Druids studied the movements of the Cosmos for millenia before the construction of Stonehenge. The earliest potholes date back to 8000 BC. The designs were laid out to measure the passage of the Sun, but not by the Druids or Picts. A Neolithic people lost to history save in legends. Two […]

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Summer Times Blues

June 20, 2023 – 1:37 pm

Today was the official summer solstice for the northern hemisphere. The day lasted almost sixteen hours in New York and the sun never set in Murmansk, Russia. I woke well before the dawn and went to sleep far past sunset, as the Earth polar cap tipped toward the nearest star 93 million miles away from […]

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Stonehenge in Bangkok

July 31, 2022 – 11:18 am

New Englanders are relatively starved of archaeological ruins other than frost-heaved stone walls from vanished farms snaking through the woods or the smooth walls of the Quincy Quarries. Not one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was on our side of the Atlantic nor from Africa or the Far East graced list either […]

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